Sam Hunt Quotes

I grew up in Montana and played football my whole life.

The best thing about high school football in the state of Texas is the whole town shuts down, and there's shoe polish all over businesses and stores. Everyone rallies around you.

I grew up in a football family, on the sideline. I was a waterboy. It was kinda something I was around my whole life.

Football teams represent cities and colleges and schools. The people have built great stadiums, and the game is culturally intertwined with our calendar. We don't go back to college for the college. We go back for a football game, and, yes, we even call that 'homecoming.'

I was born in a village where there had never been a footballer who'd made it in the major championships.

I grew up in the Midwest. I understand a sense of the small-town mentality, small-town social politics.

My elementary school is still there [in Luttrell, Tennessee]. I drop by my high school. It's a small community. I say this every night before I do the song 'The Boys of Fall' in the show - I'm really happy about where I grew up and how I grew up.

I'm a small town boy from a place not too different from Farmville. I grew up with a corn field in my backyard. My grandfather had emigrated to this country when he was about my son's age. My mom and dad built everything that matters in a small town in southern Indiana. They built a family and a good name and a business, and they raised a family.

But my husband came from a small town and hardworking parents like I did, and I don't think we've lost that mind-set. We don't have a bowling alley in our basement. We don't have houses on the beach and one in New York and one in L.A.

I was brought up by a single mom in a poor town in Arkansas and while some aspects of small-town life were really positive - like the fact that everyone there is really sweet and hospitable - there is also this close-minded mentality, and that naturally made me want to rebel.

I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.

I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it.

I come from the countryside. I come from a bunch of horticulture family members. My best friend was a farmer's boy.

I'm a small-town kid who grew up with a cornfield in the back yard and dreaming of serving my country in public office.

I was born in Iowa City and spent my early childhood on a hippie commune just outside of town.

I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again.

I was definitely very much a country boy.

I grew up in a little town with about 6,000 or 7,000 people. I always knew from 11 or 12 years old that I wanted to be a writer, and I always wanted to write about growing up in a place like that that's small and you don't fit into.

We did not go to that many movies in a theater in the little town I grew up in.

I'm from such a little place, most people live and work there their whole lives.

I think it's great to grow up in a small town because you're just dying to break loose.

When I was about 12, I came home from middle school and told my parents I wanted to be an actor. My father didn't say it to me, but he told my mom, 'No. I'm not going to allow that. He'll starve to death.' I grew up in a small town in Illinois where being an actor was not something people did.

I've loved football since I was in the marching band of junior high and high school and was the water girl for my high school's team.

I was raised in a small town in Indiana and educated at Ball State University.

Growing up in rural Ohio, I knew my way around a double-wide pretty well.